A History of Psycholinguistics The Pre-Chomskyan Era

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Willem Levelt is director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, which he founded in 1980. He is also emeritus honorary professor of psycholinguistics at Nijmegen University. He has a PhD in psychology from Leiden University (1965), was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, full professor of psychology at Groningen University, member at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1971-1972), professor of experimental psychology at Nijmegen University and, since 1980, scientific member of the Max Planck Society. He has published widely in psychophysics, mathematical psychology and psycholinguistics. His books include On binocular rivalry (1965), Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics (3 Vols, 1974, republished in 2008) and Speaking: From intention to articulation (1989).

Orientation 1. 1951Establishing the Discipline: 1770-1900 2. Inventing a Psychology of Language3. From Bumps to Diagrams: Tracing Language in the Brain4. Language Acquisition and the Diary Explosion5. Language in the Laboratory and Modeling Microgenesis6. Willem Wundt's Grand SynthesisTwentieth-Century Psycholinguistics Before the 'Cognitive Revolution' 7. New Perspectives: Structuralism and the Psychology of Imageless Thought8. Verbal Behaviour9. Speech Acts and Functions10. Language Acquisition: Wealth of data, dearth of theory11. Language in the Brain: The lures of holism12. Empirical Studies of Speech and Language Usage13. A New Cross-Linguistic Perspective and Linguistic Relativity14. Psychology of Language During the Third ReichPsycholinguistics Re-Established 15. Psycholinguistics Post-War, Pre-Chomsky